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Title: Pensacola harbor; beautiful views and pertinent facts regarding the "deep water city" of the Gulf of Mexico; Pensacola navy yards, Pensacola shipping and Pensacola fortifications
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Bliss, Charles Henry, 1860-1907, ed
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Publisher: Pensacola, C. H. Bliss
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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er and is generally known as a man of unquestioned integrity. Dur-ing his thirty-eight years residence he has bet^n familiar with every detail of Pensa-cola Harbor and he is now a candidate for harbormaster in the coming election. °° THE BLISS MAGAZINE KNOWLES BROS ESTABLISHED 1866 INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE Agents for 27 of the LeadingAmerican and Foreign Insur-ance Companies with assets ofmore than ; .- SEVEN HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS General Agents Equitable LifeAssurance Society of U. S. ^^^ ?.?!Lf.?ifox St. Pensacola. Florida NEXT TO FIRST NATIONAL BANK F. C. Brent, President ,,, „ „ Wm. K. Hver Jr Cn^hi^r ^, ^- ^^owles, Vice-Pres. ^ ^• ^^ Thos. W. Brent, W. N. Roberts, Asst. Cashiers ifhe fint tHatknal Qaak OF PENSACOLA Capital, $200,000Surplus and Undivided ^Profits, ^30,000 SAV/NG DEPARTMENT./NTEREST a PER CENT PER ANNUM DIRECTORS: F. C. Brent, Wm.H. Knowles, W. A. Blount,D. G. Brent, W. K. Hyer, Jr. iiafeti( £)ep0sit idem fer i^ent. 9ensaeela, ^lerida THE BLISS MAGAZINE
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t02 THE BLtSS MAGAZINE ■;»« ^ PENSACOLA ^ PENSACOLA is the oldest city in the United States. It was founded by theSpaniard DeLuna with two thousand followers in 1557, four years prior to thefoundmg of St. Augustine, The original site was where Forts San Carlos andBarrancas now stand. Some years later the town was abandoned and the inhabi-tant followed their leader to Mexico. In ,696 the town was revived by a Spaniardby the name of DeAriola, who with 300 soldiers built the Fort San Carlos In , 7,0the town was destroyed by a French fleet. It was rebuilt on Santa Rosa Island»bout half a m,le from where Fort Pickens now stands. In ,754 it was partiallv de^stroyed by a tidal wave and was removed to the present site. By the treatv ofPans ,n 1763 Florida became a British province and the Spanish vacated Pensacolarather than become British subjects. In ,765 the English laid off the city practicallyas .t ,s today. ,n ,78. the English surrendered to the French and Spanish armiesand Pensaco

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